enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Gyro gunsight - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_gunsight

   A gyro gunsight (G.G.S.) is a modification of the non-magnifying reflector sight in which target lead (the amount of aim-off in front of a moving target) and bullet drop are calculated automatically. The first examples were developed in Britain just before the Second World War for use during aerial combat , and more advanced models were common ...

3. Vortex Optics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_Optics

   Vortex Optics is a DBA of Sheltered Wings, Inc., which was incorporated in Wisconsin in 1989. Sheltered Wings, Inc. DBA Vortex Optics began in 2002. In 2022 after extensive research, testing and reviews Vortex became an official supplier and contractor to the American Military as the U.S. Army selected Vortex‘s XM-157 fire control system for its Next Generation Squad Weapon program.

4. Gun harmonisation - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_harmonisation

   Fire from the eight machine guns of a Hawker Hurricane is shown converging to a point, then diverging. (Drawing not to scale.) In aerial gunnery, gun harmonisation, convergence pattern, convergence zone, convergence point or bore-sight point refers to the aiming of fixed guns or cannon carried in the wings of a fighter aircraft.

5. Diopter sight - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diopter_sight

   Target shooting diopter of a 10 metre air rifle with a mounted semi-transparent occluder for the non-aiming eye. A diopter sight is an aperture sight component used to assist the aiming of ranged weapons, mainly firearms, airguns, and crossbows. Diopters function to precisely align the shooter's eye with the front sight and the target, while ...

6. Sight (device) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_(device)

   A sight or sighting device is any device used to assist in precise visual alignment (i.e. aiming) of weapons, surveying instruments, aircraft equipment, [1] [2] optical illumination equipment or larger optical instruments with the intended target. Sights can be a simple set or system of physical markers that serve as visual references for ...

7. AN/PEQ-2 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PEQ-2

   The AN/PEQ-2 Infrared Target Pointer/Illuminator/Aiming Light (ITPIAL) is a laser sight for use on rifles fitted with a Picatinny rail. It was manufactured by Insight Technology . [ 3 ]